Cascaded optical transparency in multimode-cavity optomechanical systems

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Fan, Linran ^a   Fong, King Y ^a   Poot, Menno ^a   Tang, Hong X ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; INFORMATION STORAGE; MECHANICAL PROBE; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; OPTICS; PHONON; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84923073618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6850     Document Type: Article

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